Dallas-raised artist Demi Lovato came out swinging this week with the Friday release of her eighth studio album,. In what she teased as a “funeral for my pop music,” Lovato, who is now using she/her pronouns again, reimagines herself. Grit and rage mark a dive into hard rock for the songstress, a sharp contrast to the formeractress' longtime pop output. And while the album’s lead single “Sink My Teeth” got listeners' attention, it was “29” that dropped TikTok’s jaws.
Lovato all but named former beau Wilmer Valderrama in “29.” In the song, Lovato speaks on a relationship with a 12-year age gap. “Finally 29/ Funny, just like you were at the time/ Thought it was a teenage dream/ Just a fantasy, but was it yours or was it mine/ 17, 29,” Lovato sings in the chorus.That '70s Show
, from 2010 to 2016. As in the song, Lovato was 17 and Valderrama was 29 at the inception of their relationship.TikTok was quick to point out the seemingly obvious. In a TikTok that has been viewed over 1.5 million times, fan account demisculture describes the release as “a song about Wilmer Valderrama and how he’s groomed multiple minor girls at the age of 29 and above.”Demi Lovato - 29 is a song about Wilmer Valderrama and how he's groomed multiple minor girls at the age of 29 and above.